25 Sep, 2024 Tracing Atlanta's Drinking Water from Source to End User By Jeffrey Nix Atlanta distributes between 70 and 115 million gallons of water per day, to more than 1.2 million end users spread across 379 square...
04 Sep, 2024 What's Up With all the Water Main Breaks in Atlanta? By Jeffrey Nix There are approximately 2,800+ miles of water mains distributing water throughout Atlanta. These water mains vary in both size and...
27 Mar, 2024 What’s All the Fuss About "Green Building"? By Jeffrey Nix The “green movement” seems to be all the rage in political circles, including under the so-called “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs...
31 Jan, 2024 China is Building Coal-Fired Power Plants at an Alarming Rate By Jeffrey Nix As the number one importer of both crude oil and coal, China is the largest consumer of energy and CO2 producer in the world....
27 Sep, 2023 How Wastewater Treatment Plants are Used to Monitor Public Health? By Jeffrey Nix There are more than 16,000 wastewater treatment plants or WWTP’s in the US treating wastewater generated by more than 75% of the...
20 Sep, 2023 Painting a Picture of Atlanta’s Dysfunctional Eviction Process for Sub-Standard Rental Properties! By Jeffrey Nix Approximately 3.6 million eviction proceedings are filed in the US every year. Given that the US population is approximately 330...
13 Sep, 2023 Developments in Solar Cell Efficiency are Fueling Construction of Commercial Solar Farms! By Jeffrey Nix The amount of energy reaching the earth from the Sun every minute is greater than the energy consumed by all of mankind throughout the...
30 Aug, 2023 What Every Owner, Contractor, and C-Suite Should Know About the “Spoliation of Evidence” By Jeffrey Nix At the height of the pandemic, opposing counsel allowed their owner client to “rip out” significant portions of a new $14M automated...
09 Aug, 2023 How Routine Construction Activities Impose Liability Upon Owners and Contractors for Hazardous Waste Under CERCLA? By Jeffrey Nix Owners and contractors seldom consider themselves responsible for hazardous waste they did not create, do not use, and about which they...
26 Jul, 2023 Putting a Face Upon Atlanta's Slumlords! By Jeffrey Nix About a mile west of downtown Atlanta, lies one of the most poverty stricken, crime riddled areas within Georgia. Often referred to as...
19 Jul, 2023 Another Atlanta Sinkhole – 30 Years After the Fatal 14th Street Sinkhole. By Jeffrey Nix Sinkholessinkhole swallowed a large SUV on Ponce De Leon Ave. - a 4 lane undivided highway providing an east-west artery in Midtown...
05 Jul, 2023 How Tunnel Construction Solved Sewer Overflows in Many Older US Cities? By Jeffrey Nix Many older cities, especially those East of the Mississippi, rely upon combined sewer overflow systems or “CSO’s” that collect and...